Adelaide-based regional operator Air South has boosted its passenger fleet with the acquisition of two 30-seat Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia aircraft. The charter and fly-in/fly-out specialist has taken delivery of the first Brasilia (VH-YEG), with the second due to arrive in early 2015. Director of Air South and sister carrier Rossair Mark Lindh says the Brasilia
When Abu Dhabi International Airport’s new midfield terminal building opens in the third quarter of 2017, it will add two hundred per cent extra capacity to the airport’s current limits. The new terminal will serve as the home Etihad Airways, which will relocate to its 65 gates along with most of its partners – likely
Jetstar is bringing back non-stop service between the Gold Coast and Perth, and introducing new international routes to Indonesia and New Zealand from March 2015 through improved fleet utilisation. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier said it will be the first airline to offer direct flights between Cairns and Bali when its three-times-a-week flights begin on March 31
Mystery surrounds the eventual retirement home of Qantas Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA, with the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) describing social media reports that it will take the aircraft as “rumour mongering”. HARS president Bob De La Hunty says the “rumours” on social media are “all over the place”. “None of it is right,” De La Hunty told
Qantas says yields improved across both its domestic and international operations for a third straight month in November as it maintained capacity discipline at home and benefitted from more benign capacity growth from foreign carriers. On the domestic front, Qantas said on Tuesday yields – an industry term measuring average airfares per passenger – improved
Perth has been named as Emirates’ 34th Airbus A380 destination, with the Dubai-based carrier to add the West Australian capital to its growing network featuring the double decker superjumbo from May 2015. Emirates said it would swap one of its three daily flights to Perth from the Boeing 777-300ER to the A380 from May 1, which
